Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
And the answer about merging logs for webalizer is: Is there a way to create a combined report showing hits to a number of separate servers all handling the same web sites. I am guessing all you have to do is feed it each of the log files in turn, and make sure you don't duplicate them. I think it requires not using incremental mode, but I hope you know for sure. I am in the process of recommending it on the php-general mailing list. Q: I have multiple load-balanced servers (or I'm using DNS round-robin to accoplish the same thing) and I want to generate one webalizer report for the whole farm, but each server generates its own log file. When I run webalizer on each of the logfiles in turn, it ignores a lot of the records because it thinks they're out of order! A: You need to merge all of the logfiles together so that webalizer sees the records in chronological order. One good way to do that on the fly is with mergelog (http://mergelog.sourceforge.net/), a quick common logfile sorter. An example: mergelog server1.log server2.log server3.log | webalizer -- Bradford L. Barrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] A free electron in a sea of neutrons DoD#1750 KD4NAW The only thing Micro$oft has done for society, is make people believe that computers are inherently unreliable. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
Addressed to: "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply to note from "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:57:10 -0600 I have a large site, with several hundred pages its a product listing and shopping cart and I want to log my page views I receive an average of 3000 hits per minute. Is it better (faster) to log my views to a database table? or to a flat file? No need to re-invent the wheel, all accesses are already being logged. If you are using Apache, take a look at the access log. Every hit to the server is already logged there. I am not sure what the default location for the file is, but you can find it with locate access_log or by looking for the string Log in your httpd.conf file. I believe it may appear under either the AccessLog or CustomLog keywords. You might want to look at Webalizer, or a couple of other programs to analyze the contents. http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ There are others, but this is the one I use. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists http://www.developersdesk.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
the problem with that is as soon as you run a load-baanced installation, collecting apache logs start to be a pain in the a$$ :) I have given some thought to the logging thing, but am still undecided re: letting apache do its thing, and writing scripts to aggregate the logs, or turning off apache logging and going to the DB. problem is this puts an annoying amount of stress on the production DB, so there you have it, the dilemma :) -a -- Alex Black, Head Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: php.general Date: 14 Jan 2001 01:58:33 -0800 Subject: Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better Addressed to: "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply to note from "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:57:10 -0600 I have a large site, with several hundred pages its a product listing and shopping cart and I want to log my page views I receive an average of 3000 hits per minute. Is it better (faster) to log my views to a database table? or to a flat file? No need to re-invent the wheel, all accesses are already being logged. If you are using Apache, take a look at the access log. Every hit to the server is already logged there. I am not sure what the default location for the file is, but you can find it with locate access_log or by looking for the string Log in your httpd.conf file. I believe it may appear under either the AccessLog or CustomLog keywords. You might want to look at Webalizer, or a couple of other programs to analyze the contents. http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ There are others, but this is the one I use. Rick Widmer Internet Marketing Specialists http://www.developersdesk.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
Use a separate DB for something like this - have a data database, and a 'logging' database. We're setting up something similar - currently we have 2 databases for separate things, and will probably merge the first two datasets back into the main database, and turn the second one into a logger. Alex Black wrote: the problem with that is as soon as you run a load-baanced installation, collecting apache logs start to be a pain in the a$$ :) I have given some thought to the logging thing, but am still undecided re: letting apache do its thing, and writing scripts to aggregate the logs, or turning off apache logging and going to the DB. problem is this puts an annoying amount of stress on the production DB, so there you have it, the dilemma :) -a -- Alex Black, Head Monkey [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Turing Studio, Inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 Saul Zaentz Film Center 2600 Tenth St Suite 433 Berkeley, CA 94710-2522 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups: php.general Date: 14 Jan 2001 01:58:33 -0800 Subject: Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better Addressed to: "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** Reply to note from "Dallas Kropka" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun, 14 Jan 2001 00:57:10 -0600 I have a large site, with several hundred pages its a product listing and shopping cart and I want to log my page views I receive an average of 3000 hits per minute. Is it better (faster) to log my views to a database table? or to a flat file? No need to re-invent the wheel, all accesses are already being logged. If you are using Apache, take a look at the access log. Every hit to the server is already logged there. I am not sure what the default location for the file is, but you can find it with locate access_log or by looking for the string Log in your httpd.conf file. I believe it may appear under either the AccessLog or CustomLog keywords. You might want to look at Webalizer, or a couple of other programs to analyze the contents. http://www.mrunix.net/webalizer/ There are others, but this is the one I use. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[PHP] Re:[PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
For a good distributed logging solution, check out mod_log_spread
(http://www.backhand.org/mod_log_spread/). It's an apache module that
handles distributed logging by writing logs to reliable multicast
groups. Additionally, because it multicasts data, additional clients
and log writers can be added on the fly without any additional overhead
or configuration. It is also provides good handling of mod_vhost_alias
logs.
George
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Re: [PHP] logging page views, which method is better????
Another technique is use a quick-and dirty save of one line to a text file, and have a cron script or somehting similar simply run every day or every few hours that reads from your home-made log into a db table, and then empties the file. Gfunk My name was Brian McGee, I stayed up listening to Queen, When I was seventeen. http://www.gfunk007.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
